COLETON FISHACRE

A small country house built in 1925-6 by Oswald Milne for Rupert D' Oyly Carte the opera impresario. it was constructed in a cottage style influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. It was two storeys, asymmetrical Y-shaped on plan and built of local slate rubble with a Delabole slate roof. A long paved terrace along the south front has a curved niche over a pond on the lower terrace. The house is situated in landscaped gardens planted by Lady Dorothy d'Oyly Carte (see record 762576) in a wooded combe leading down to the sea. There are a group of structures on the beach associated with the property (please see record 1443164).

The house was intended as a weekend and holiday home, for the D' Oyly family and their friends, although Lady Dorothy lived at Coleton permanently during the second half of the 1920s and the 1930s.

Coleton Fishacre was built in 1926 by Oswald Milne for Rupert D'Oyly Carte. (1)

"A long irregular building of local rubble, the polygonal porch neatly tucked beneath the main range and an angled wing with the principal living room. Fine terraced gardens, with drive down to the beach."

Now in the care of the National Trust. (2)

SX 909508: Coleton Fishacre [NAT] (3)

A small country house constructed in 1925-6 by Oswald Milne, Grade II. (4)

Coleton Fishacre was intended as a weekend and holiday home, for the D' Oyly family and their friends, although Lady Dorothy lived at Coleton permanently during the second half of the 1920s and the 1930s. (5)